Tom Milford: You know, Harv, I hate to see you so hacked up. I wish there was something I could do.
Harvey Granson: Mary Leona. Get me off the alimony hook.
Tom Milford: That good a friend I am not.
Harvey Granson: I'll give you three of my paintings in your apartment.
Tom Milford: How much are they worth?
Harvey Granson: $25,000 a piece.
Tom Milford: I have to take Leona?
Harvey Granson: Yeah.
Tom Milford: Forget it.
Harvey Granson: Fairweather friend.


--Donald O'Connor (as ) in That Funny Feeling

Patsy Monahan: It's a nice day.
Jimmy Monahan: You said that.
Patsy Monahan: Oh, it's got everything: a great big sun, sky -
Jimmy Monahan: Yes, yes...
Patsy Monahan: Well, I'm just trying to make conversation. I'm in there pitching!
Jimmy Monahan: High and outside.


--Donald O'Connor (as ) in The Merry Monahans

Cosmo Brown: Gee, I'm glad you turned up, we've been looking inside every cake in town.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: Make 'em laugh!


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson: You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.
Cosmo Brown: Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?
Don Lockwood: I don't know, what have you got?
Cosmo Brown: I gotta get out of here.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: What's the first thing an actor learns? "The show must go on!' Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show MUST go on!


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain

Cosmo Brown: Why bother to shoot this film? Why not release the old one under a new title? You've seen one, you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood: Hey, what'd you say that for?
Cosmo Brown: What's the matter?
Don Lockwood: That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.
Cosmo Brown: That's three weeks ago, you still thinking about that?
Don Lockwood: I can't get her out of my mind.
Cosmo Brown: How could you - she's the first dame who hasn't fallen for your line since you were four.


--Donald O'Connor (as Cosmo Brown) in Singin' in the Rain